Inria Chile continues its development in South America. In recent years, with Claude Puech at the helm, she has strengthened her network of contacts and has set up partnerships with investment structures to accelerate the creation of strategies in Chile. Appointed on September 1st as Director, Nayat Sanchez Pi intends to pursue this strategy and implement an ambitious settlement project that includes opening to French partners, the revitalization of the transfer policy and the establishment of a sustainable economic model.

Thirty years ago, the Web was set up to meet an ever-growing need to organise and access information. As a founding member for Europe of the W3C, Inria take a look back at the birth of the Web as both a research subject and a tool, assessing the problems that continue to be raised.

Capitalizing on five years of research-collaboration success, Mitacs and Inria renewed their partnership originally signed in 2014. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) supports two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and at eight Inria Research Centres in France.

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
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The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Activity reports

Overall Objectives

The goal of the Indes team is to study models for diffuse
computing and develop languages for secure diffuse
applications. Diffuse applications, of which Web 2.0 applications are
a notable example, are the new applications emerging from the
convergence of broad network accessibility, rich personal digital
environment, and vast sources of information. Strong security
guarantees are required for these applications, which intrinsically
rely on sharing private information over networks of mutually
distrustful nodes connected by unreliable media.

Diffuse computing requires an original combination of nearly all
previous computing paradigms, ranging from classical sequential
computing to parallel and concurrent computing in both their
synchronous / reactive and asynchronous variants. It also benefits
from the recent advances in mobile computing, since devices involved
in diffuse applications are often mobile or portable.

The Indes team contributes to the whole chain of research
on models and languages for diffuse computing, going from the study of
foundational models and formal semantics to the design and
implementation of new languages to be put to work on concrete
applications. Emphasis is placed on correct-by-construction
mechanisms to guarantee correct, efficient and secure implementation
of high-level programs. The research is partly inspired by and
built around Hop, the web programming model proposed by the
former Mimosa team, which takes the web as its execution platform and
targets interactive and multimedia applications.